Forget Tupac Murder...Diddy Now Facing Charges Of Rape!

Ex-Girlfriend Accuses Diddy of Rape, Beatings, and a Car Bombing

Cassie Ventura said she spent “years in silence and darkness.”

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Updated Nov. 16, 2023 7:27PM EST / Published Nov. 16, 2023 4:40PM EST

Hip hop impresario and businessman Sean Combs is facing accusations of rape and ongoing physical and emotional abuse by a singer formerly signed to his label with whom he had a longterm relationship.

Casandra Ventura, who performed as Cassie, filed suit against Combs on Thursday in Manhattan federal court. The lawsuit, which comes with a trigger warning at the top, lays out a breathtaking array of alleged violent behavior by Combs, including an alleged incident where he “blew up a man’s car after he learned he was interested in Ms. Ventura.”

He was not only Ventura’s romantic partner, but also “her boss, one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry, and a vicious, cruel, and controlling man nearly two decades her senior,” the suit states.

Ventura’s complaint opens with a description of Combs receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 BET Awards, citing his acceptance speech.

“I have to give a special shoutout, thank you, love, to the people that was really there for me,” he said, specifically calling out “Cassie, for holding me down in the dark times, love.”

But, according to the complaint, Ventura “was held down by Mr. Combs and endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands.” She suffered through a “cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking,” the complaint goes on, detailing “violent and unlawful acts” Ventura says included being raped as payback for trying to leave Combs, and being punched, kicked, and stomped by him on a regular basis.

In 2011, Combs discovered that Ventura had had a brief fling with Kid Cudi during a “rough patch” in their relationship. An enraged Combs allegedly beat her and, the next year, told Ventura he was going to blow up Kid Cudi’s car, adding that he wanted to make sure the rapper was home when it happened.

Soon after, the rapper’s vehicle exploded in his driveway, the suit says. The episode “terrified” Ventura, “as she began to fully comprehend what Mr. Combs was both willing and able to do to those he believed had slighted him.”

Among other things, Combs also forced Ventura into encounters with male sex workers while he filmed the goings-on, and made her carry his gun in her purse “just to make her uncomfortable and demonstrate how dangerous he is.” The complaint contends Ventura never approached police because she feared it “would merely give Mr. Combs another excuse to hurt her.”

“After years in silence and darkness,” Ventura said in a statement to The Daily Beast, “I am finally ready to tell my story, and to speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face violence and abuse in their relationships.”

In a statement on behalf of Combs, attorney Ben Brafman called the allegations “offensive and outrageous.” He said Ventura had been trying to “blackmail” Combs for $30 million, threatening to write a book about the abuse, which his client “unequivocally rejected.”

But Douglas Wigdor, Ventura’s lawyer, countered Brafman’s claim, saying, “Mr. Comb’s offered Ms. Ventura eight figures to silence her and prevent the filing of this lawsuit. She rejected his efforts and decided to give a voice to all woman who suffer in silence. Ms. Ventura should be applauded for her bravery.”

Through a spokesperson, Kid Cudi told The New York Times, which first reported the lawsuit, that Ventura’s account of the attack on his car was “all true.”

Ventura met Combs in 2005, when she was 19 and he was 37, the complaint states. He signed her to his Bad Boy Records label, and soon “lured” Ventura into a nightmare relationship, according to the complaint.

Shortly thereafter, Combs said he was interested in “voyeurism” and told the then-22-year-old Ventura that it would “turn him on” to see her engage “with another dick.”

“The first time, Mr. Combs hired a man and brought the man to his home in Los Angeles,“ the complaint says. “The man, Mr. Combs, and Ms. Ventura wore masquerade masks, and ingested drugs. Mr. Combs directed Ms. Ventura to perform sexual acts with this man while Mr. Combs watched them. He masturbated while he directed Ms. Ventura and the man to do specific sexual acts. The entire encounter lasted multiple days.”

Combs called this type of arrangement a “Freak Off,” or “FO,” according to the complaint, and would eventually come to demand they be performed on a weekly basis. They could allegedly occur anywhere—though most often took place in hotel suites—and at any time. In one instance in 2015, Combs allegedly interrupted a surprise birthday dinner for Ventura to demand she leave with him for an FO.

“When she expressed that she did not want to go, Mr. Combs had Ms. Ventura cornered by his security staff in order to force her to leave with him,” the complaint contends.

Invariably during an FO, according to the lawsuit, Ventura would be “given ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, and alcohol in excessive amounts.” She was allegedly “required” to wear lingerie and paint her nails white “to contrast her nails with the skin of the Black men he hired to have sex with her.” Sometimes an intoxicated Combs would hit her in front of the sex worker.

“Ms. Ventura was repulsed by Mr. Combs’s demands, but between the physical beating and recognizing his incredible power and incredible temper,” the suit says, “Ms. Ventura became petrified of her partner and boss, and felt that she could not say no.”

At the same time, Combs—as evidenced by the alleged Kid Cudi episode—became enraged when other men paid attention to Ventura, or vice-versa, the complaint states.

“In 2015, Ms. Ventura spoke to a popular music manager at an after party in a hotel suite in Las Vegas,” it says.

“Mr. Combs saw her speaking to this manager, and sternly told her to step into the bedroom adjoining the suite. In the bedroom, Mr. Combs beat Ms. Ventura severely. She ran from corner to corner of the room, trying to avoid Mr. Combs’s beating and kicking. When she tried to lock herself in the bathroom, he pushed through, and punched and kicked her while she curled up under the toilet. Her screams were drowned out by the loud music playing in the outside area of the hotel suite.”

Ventura says she wound up with two black eyes, a burst and bruised lip, and a large welt on her forehead. According to the complaint, Combs told her that she needed to “put more makeup on, my son can’t see you like that.”

In the fall of 2018, Ventura had dinner with Combs at an Italian restaurant in Malibu, which she expected would serve to cement their breakup. Instead, Combs went home with Ventura, and raped her, the complaint states.

Ventura has struggled for years with drug and alcohol abuse issues, addictions that she says were “fueled” by Combs. Two years after meeting him, she joined him for a trip to Miami, Florida, the complaint alleges, during which he plied her with “copious amounts of drugs.”

“As she wanted Mr. Combs to continue to support her career, she felt she could not refuse Mr. Combs’ urging her to take more drugs,” it continues. “After providing her with drugs, Mr. Combs had sexual intercourse with Ms. Ventura during this trip.”

As their relationship continued, Ventura began using drugs and alcohol “to drown out the memories of her abuse,” the suit says. “[W]ithout being intoxicated, she suffered from horrific nightmares of the forced sexual acts that Mr. Combs demanded she participate in during the regularly scheduled FOs and of the physical beatings that she endured throughout her relationship.”

“She had difficulty eating or sleeping, and her relationships with her family suffered. During this time, she frequently had thoughts of ending her life.”

Ventura checked herself into an inpatient rehab facility to get clean, and has worked to rebuild her life, according to the complaint. Yet, for the “intensive therapy and medical care” she has required to help herself recover, Ventura says in her complaint that she “will forever live with the physical and psychological repercussions of the over a decade of violence, fear, and exploitation she endured.”

“After years in silence and darkness, I am finally ready to tell my story, and to speak up on behalf of myself and for the benefit of other women who face violence and abuse in their relationships,” Ventura – an R&B singer who goes by the stage name Cassie – said in a statement to CNN.

“With the expiration of New York’s Adult Survivors Act fast approaching, it became clear that this was an opportunity to speak up about the trauma I have experienced and that I will be recovering from for the rest of my life.”

Ventura is asking for punitive, exemplary, and compensatory damages to be determined by the court.

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Wueeehhh!!!

We cannot make any judgement yet because we do not have facts but my only question in such cases is usually, ‘Why do women wait this long to report their stories?’. People like Amber Heard have already ruined chances of innocent women being believed.

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kama kuna medical records documenting hizo injures kwisha yeye

Haaaa …watangoja sana a heavy weight in hip-hop awekwe ndani
She’s not going to win this case

Anasema alikuwa anateswa yet alikaa hapo for more than 10 years? Madame waache kutubeba ufala

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We thought this ninja was bad, kumbe ni ibilisi mwenyewe.

Rumour is, the Nigger Shags His Fellow Bonobos Too… Kwanza Wale Upcoming Talent.

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That could be true. That “FO” maneno is just straight up gy. And to think there was a time when we thought diddy was the sht. We were idolising a violent f*g. Jesus.

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These whores ain’t loyal mhenga wezzy alinena.

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This bitch should just shut up

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i am with Diddy. I could engage in far worse acts if i was in Diddy’s position. God bless Diddy.

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Huna huruma elder.

Somebody’s broke and looking for a payday and it’s not Diddy.

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But @Truwuman kapondi aka mukenye from abothuguchi well tell you BELIEVE ALL WOMEN . ALL

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Kunguru hawezi kaa 10 years after the fact ndio utoe meno hapa accusing people. Lakini Diddy ni mcooshite kama @Bingwa_Scrotum juu alideenyer Fabulous mchoosh. naskia uwe dem ama mwanaume atapita na wewe.

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Me too banaa… once you get that crazy rich normal sex ya missionary na doggy just starts getting boring

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Even though watu wametargetiwa na metoo huyu msee ni straight up sexual predator.Ni vile amekuwa akitarget fellow rappers but vile ni issue ya wanaume they keep it under wraps.Alijaribu kuinvite fabolous kwa keja yake kwa hizi parties, faboluos kuona usenge kwa akajichomoa mbio.You can tell hayuko comfortable na diddy during this interview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EFS98FHzgw

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50 Cent has always criticized Diddy for his erratic behavior.

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Surviving Diddy will be epic

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